Negerhollands
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Negerhollands.
Proper noun
Negerhollands
- A Dutch-based creole, also incorporating elements of Danish, English, French, Spanish and West African languages, once spoken in what are now the US Virgin Islands.
Translations
Translations
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Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compound of neger (“black person”) + Hollands (“Hollandic”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Negerhollands n
- Negerhollands (extinct creole language)
Usage notes
- Despite the name, the main lexifier dialect was Zealandic rather than Hollandic.
- Sometimes offensive; see the usage notes at neger.
Adjective
Negerhollands (not comparable)
- pertaining to Negerhollands
Usage notes
As above.
Declension
| Declension of Negerhollands | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Negerhollands | |||
| inflected | Negerhollandse | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | Negerhollands | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Negerhollandse | ||
| n. sing. | Negerhollands | |||
| plural | Negerhollandse | |||
| definite | Negerhollandse | |||
| partitive | Negerhollands | |||